Bikes safely packed away | in a train
Arrival at Gare de l'est | Paris
| Paris
I love this little street - very colorful | Paris
Le miroir d'eau (water mirror) along the promenade | Bordeaux
| Bordeaux
I was amused by the stick figures | Bordeaux
Entrance to the Esplanade Quinconces | Bordeaux
Monument aux Girondins | Bordeaux
Downtown Bordeaux | Bordeaux
Place de la Comèdie | Bordeaux
Place de la Bourse | Bordeaux
The lovely bike trail heading out of Arcachon | Arcachon
mmm... moules frites | Arcachon
Looking towards Arcachon | Arcachon
Looking towards the big dune | Arcachon
| Arcachon
Ready for the first day on the trail! | Bordeaux
Bordeaux as ssen from the bridge leaving town | Bordeaux
This was the lovely trail we rode on for the first 55km | Cénac
One of the many lovely village churches along the way | Lignan-de-Bordeaux
Mmmm... warm goat cheese toasts on salad | Créon
Aquitaine landscape | Créon
| La Sauve
Wine country! | La Sauve
| Sauveterre-de-Guyenne
The power bar didn't quite make us powerful enough... | Sauveterre-de-Guyenne
| Loubens
Looking back on the last (of many) of the afternoon's hills | Saint-Sève
Arrival in La Réole | La Réole
We loved our room! | La Réole
Garden scenes | La Réole
Ginger, the 8-week old St. Bernard puppy | La Réole
What knockers! | La Réole
Our gite | La Réole
Downtown La Réole, a happening place... | La Réole
Oh, yum, melon filled with muscat as appetizer | La Réole
The view from our room | La Réole
This derelict house was complete full of pigeons | La Réole
Parish church | La Réole
I walked through the benedictine monastery adjacent to the church | La Réole
| La Réole
Scenes from our gite | La Réole
Crossing the Garonne | La Réole
We meet the canal - our first lock | Fontet
Canal scenes | Meilhan-sur-Garonne
| Montpouillan
Hoping for handouts | Le Mas-d'Agenais
If you look carefully you can see how flat my front tire is... | Le Mas-d'Agenais
| Puch-d'Agenais
| Feugarolles
Our late but exceptionally tasty dinner | Agen
There was a certain charm in the shabbiness of the facades | Agen
Always enjoy looking at food | Agen
Cool dor | Agen
I'm not quite sure what this statue represented | Agen
Also an interesting sculpture | Agen
Inside the cathedral | Agen
Inside the cathedral, known for its double nave | Agen
The canal crosses the River Garonne - we had ridden across the previous evening | Agen
Looking over the aqueduct on the way out of town | Agen
Vera was having a bit of troulb finding something in her pack | Saint-Romain-le-Noble
Our first picnic | Saint-Romain-le-Noble
Canal scenes | Lamagistère
| Lamagistère
Possible rental? | Golfech
Riding, studying the scenery | Golfech
Here they had built an open air stage across the river | Valence
The rotating bridge at work | Moissac
Making the most of the beautiful early-evening light | Moissac
The main shopping street after business hours | Moissac
We made a morning visit to the abbey and cloisters | Moissac
Our bikes looks awfully small compared to the abbey | Moissac
The canal crosses the Tarn | Moissac
Picnic pause! | Escatalens
Here they pull the boats up with two engines | Montech
Drink and feet-cooling pause | Lespinasse
At the end of the Canal de Garonne / start of the Canal du Midi | Toulouse
A spiffed up version of the salad with warm chevre toasts | Toulouse
I can't remember if it was cheese or meat inside | Toulouse
Place du Capitole | Toulouse
Cathedral St. Etienne | Toulouse
Grave of Pierre Paul de Riquet, architect of the Canal de Midi | Toulouse
| Toulouse
St. Sernin | Toulouse
The Canal du Midi runs right through the middle of town | Toulouse
Along the first stretch the trail was nicely paved | Toulouse
Along the first stretch the trail was nicely paved | Ramonville-Saint-Agne
Typical lock-keeper's house - the sign on the front lists the distances to the previous and dext locks | Ayguesvives
In the Haut-Garonne region there were still nice informational signs | Ayguesvives
We stopped for a short pause in the cooling shade | Ayguesvives
Can't believe this was a "Bottin Gourmand"-listed restaurant | Gardouch
We just didn't have time to stop and explore every charming town along the way | Canal du Midi
After days of being spoiled by paved trails, we were shocked by this first rough stretch. Little did we know what we were in for... | Canal du Midi
First of several Thomas Jefferson tributes I saw | Montferrand
Several kilometers of this is VERY enervating | Canal du Midi
| Mas-Sainte-Puelles
| Canal du Midi
The famous bassin | Castelnaudary
Vera was fascinated by this rather run-down town | Castelnaudary
| Castelnaudary
Chez Sarah, the sight of my sleepless night | Castelnaudary
Collegiate church of St. Michel | Castelnaudary
"You are now taking your life in your hands..." | Castelnaudary
The 3-tiered lock | Castelnaudary
Oooh, an allée! | Canal du Midi
I had to stop and take sunflower pictures | Canal du Midi
One of the four signs we saw in the 4 days on the Canal du Midi | Canal du Midi
The countryside is looking more Mediterranean | Canal du Midi
As the days got hotter, the tree coverage seemed to thin out... | Canal du Midi
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| Carcassonne
First sightings of La Cité | Carcassonne
St. Nazaire | Carcassonne
Salade avec saucisse de Toulouse | Carcassonne
La Cité by night | Carcassonne
Full moon | Carcassonne
The city hall was dramatically lit | Carcassonne
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